FALAISE AND VILLANDRY
Some vintage Super 8 movie film
By Andy Gilbert
We've just been sent a link by Catherine de Villeneuve, to a Youtube movie, showing scenes from a Dieppe-Newhaven return crossing.
The movie starts in black and white, in Dieppe and shows embarkation aboard Falaise, and a bit of a bumpy crossing to Newhaven.
The second half starts in Newhaven (in colour) and shows Villandry at the ramp, cars driving on board, the departure from Newhaven and life on board. It then goes back to black and white (remember how expensive colour film was back then!) for the entry into Dieppe and docking at the ramp.
On the way out of Newhaven, Villandry passes Dover, which has arrived to relieve Falaise for her yearly overhaul. This, plus the fact that Villandry doesn't yet have the Newhaven-Dieppe houseflag on her funnel, lets me date the film to a few months in 1967.
Link to movie